The Bard puts away his Zither and walks to each door individually and listens [ooc] Left door 25%, Center 25%, Right 25%
He then says, "Through the center door I could clearly hear the sound of either mules or donkeys. But through both the left and right doors, I could not hear anything."
"Yes, this is exactly how the game works!" Zaheed lunges forward to throw open door number 2.
Zaheed opens up door #2 the center door and this unadorned room houses the mules. There are six stalls, plenty of hay, and tack and harness along the north wall, occupied by six mules.
There are doors to the left and right.
"Excellent! Now Uthman, you picked the door to the left, which means we should go to the right!"
Possessed with an excitement he had forgotten was possible, Zaheed charges through the door on the right.
Nura shrugs and follows Zaheed, scimitar at the ready.
Uthman follows as well.
"Decisive action, my friend, I like it."
Zaheed opens the door to the right and finds a hall that is luxuriantly decorated with elaborate mosaics of abstract patterns covering the walls and floor. The columns, made of white alabaster, rise to support the vaulted ceiling.
There are crates containing provisions of food other things.
There are three doors that lead out of this room excluding the one you came in from. You can surmise that the door to the right leads to the room where you attacked the guards with the fountains which leave a door that is a quick left from the door you entered from basically parrallel. And then there is another door further down inside the hall.
Zaheed runs ahead, believing that speed is their greatest ally. He throws open the farthest door on the left.
"This is... this complex is surprisingly large," says Fadilah. "One could almost house... forty thieves in here."
This hall is decorated like area 1 and you can guess it is used as the living quarters for retainers in the complex. A total of 25 sleeping pallets cover the floor near the walls.
GM Rolls
Zaheed opens the door and crosses the threshold and sees 13 guards in purple stained dishdashahs and one dwarf who wears a purple fez, leather armor, and purple silk pantaloons. The dwarf wears a gold earring. 8 of the 13 guards are sleeping in the pallets and the other five are playing cards.
"Knew it would come in handy," says Fadilah as she unleashes her sleep spell at the card-players.
All of the guards except for the dwarf fall asleep.
Uthman rushes to the awake dwarf and tries to end him quickly and quietly.
Now his blood is really flowing, and the capable warrior weaves his greatsword in a low arc, cutting the air in the direction of the dwarf.
Uthman's attacks miss wherea Zaheed's hit.
Rest of party
Nabila, Liath, Nura
Nura moves forward to also attack the dwarf.
Nura moves in quickly and she is able to kill the dwarf with her strike.
Combat over
There is another door to the left other than the one you came in from.
Zaheed searches the dwarf's body for keys.
Fadilah says, "These fine fellows won't sleep forever - someone may wish to tie them up."
Zaheed
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Fadilah says, "These fine fellows won't sleep forever - someone may wish to tie them up."
Liath's lips curl into a smile. "Peradventure, I may be of some service here."
One at a time, Liath uses her skill at Rope Use to loop bonds around each sleeping form, tying them securely to their beds, so when they wake they will be as still as the sheets they lay on.
Liath secures those who were sleeping before Fadi enchanted the rest and then does it to those who were enchanted.
Zaheed helps with the rope binding and then leads the group back into the previous room, then through the door he had previously passed by.
Zaheed the party to the closest door they passed by. He tries to open the door but it is locked.
Zaheed attempts to force the door open.
Zaheed crashes through the door into the next room.
This unadorned chamber with burn marks up and down the southern wall contains a single prisoner, suspended upside down from the ceiling by a rope and also gagged.
As Uthman follows behind Zaheed his eyes go wide, he whispers back to his companions, "Did the woman say anything about a prisoner? This poor man- kidnapped by theives!?"
While supporting the weight of the prisoner, Zaheed cuts the ropes with his katar and removes the gag. He wonders again if everything the woman said was a ruse. Perhaps this prisoner was her objective all along?
"Quickly, tell us who you are and why you were imprisoned here in such a way!"
The man scrapes at Zaheed's feet and says, "Oh, my name is Rashad, I was captured most recently while making a pilgrimage to Muluk from Hiyal. My party ran into a mule train near the river and we saw an elven woman wearing all red and asked her for directions and then her 12 friends murdered my friends and then decided to use me as some sort of sadistic play thing. I thank you most profusely and I pledge myself to your service for the next 12 months and a day. Najm be praised! Thank the Calipha of Muluk, may she reign a century and a day. Thank the Grand Caliph, may he be blessed with the heir that has been denied him for so long...."
"Indeed, I fear nothing is as we were led to believe. Where is this Elven woman now?"
Rashad looks at you and says, "One of the other rooms. They captured me and brought me here. She is a Pyromancer. She burned me repeatably for amusement. I have no idea what you were led to believe. Give me a sword and I will earn my keep."
If there are no other exits out of this room, we'll back through the room where we tied up all the guards and through the far door. I don't care if the prisoner comes with or flees, but if he leaves and takes one of our camels then no force of nature, god, or man on earth will save him from my wrath.
Nura gives the prisoner her old scimitar. "It is used, but it has served me well," she says. "Be warned if you plot against us that your death will not be swift nor painless."
You go back out of the prison and retrace your steps where some of the guards have started to attempt to break free but they are still gagged and you continue moving into the next room. Rashad grabs a scimitar.
The hall is luxuriantly decorated with elaborate mosaics of abstract patterns covering the walls and floor. The columns, made of white alabaster, rise to support the vaulted ceiling. Incongruous with this elegant setting, three 10-foot-tall mounds of ripe grapes are piled near the southern exits. However, you came in from the north.
Over 50 large urns are stacked along the western wall. Two wooden vats, over 10 feet in diameter, occupy the northern part of the hall. They are filled with grapes in the process of being stomped by four retainers. Six others watch from around the other side of the vats. There are three doors to the left and one door straight to the south of you.
Surprise , Initiative Party , Retainers
This time you are not able to surprise them and the six not inside the vats move forward and one of them scream,"Hanzala, INtruders!"
Retainer 1 vs Zaheed miss
Retainer 2 vs Uthman miss
Retainer 3 vs Nura miss
Retainer 4 vs Liath hit
Retainer 5 vs Nabila hit
Retainer 6 vs Rashad miss
Retainers 7-10 hurry to pull themselves out of the vats.
Party
GM Rolls
Expecting battle, Zaheed's greatsword is already arcing through the air toward his attacker.
"You should all lay down your weapons and surrender! Your service to a wicked man has sealed your doom if you do not!"
Uthman shouts as he lays into the nearest retainer:
Nura does not mince words, preferring to let her scimitar do the talking.
Zaheed hits his target but the retainer is still up.
Uthman is able to dispatch the retainer on him but Nura misses her attack.
Rashad attacks the one upon him even though he is injured, hit killing the retainer on him.
The Bard moves forward to help Nabila missing his target.
Nabila, Liath, Fadi
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Liath lets out an inhuman screech of pain and rage as the only man of skill or speed amongst the attackers scores home a hit that would slay a normal man.
But she is neither man nor normal. Even as the blade, red with her blood, cuts back for another swing, she is already flailing, punching, her arms working like pistons to beat her foeman to a bloody pulp.
miss
Fadilah fades back from the thick of battle and whispers to her gen, sending it off to find another spell.
rounds
Liath is able to knock her foe out cold.
Fadi's gen says, "No problem"
Nabila steps back from her attacker and looses two arrows at him
hitting with the second one doing hurting her attacker.
Round 2
Initiative Party , Retainers , Other
Roll off Party , Retainers Two ties... simultaneous action. 1d2 1=Party 2= Retainers moves are simultaneous after the woman goes.
At the top of the round an elven woman who is wearing a pure white dolman and a bright red keffiyeh, held in place by a similarly colored agal. Over the dolman she is also wearing a sash comes out of the second door to the left. She casts moves towards the exit and unleashes two magic missiles, 1 at Zaheed and 1 at Uthman
The Retainers mover to plug in the gaps where necessary continue fighting.
Retainer 1 vs Zaheed miss
Retainer 7 moves toward and attacks Uthman miss
Retainer 3 vs Nura miss
Retainer 8 moves toward and attacks Liath miss
Retainer 5 vs Bard 1 hit
Retainer 9 vs Rashad hit
Retainer 10 looses two arrows at Zaheed hit , hit
Party
Zaheed charges at the Elven mage, heedless of his imminent demise. Brave Hajama expects no less.
If the elven mage still stands after Zaheed's attack, Nura will move to finish her. Otherwise, she takes the nearest enemy as a target.
Crit! For 8 points of damage total!